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Technicolor Yawn
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Technicolor Yawn : Phrases
Meaning:
Vomiting.
Example:
Origin:
This is one of the many colourful Australian phrases for vomiting. It was coined by, or at least popularised by, Barry Humphries and appeared in his 1965 review A Nice Night’s Entertainment:
When I swallowed the last prawn,
I had a technicolor yawn and I chundered in the old Pacific Sea.
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